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(No Model.)

0. A. FETTERS, PERIODICAL FILE HOLDER.

No. 594, 827 a Patented Nov. 30, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES ARTIIUR FETTERS, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, HARRY C. HOEFINGHOFF, AND WILLIAM C. WILCOX, OF SAME PLACE.

PERIODICAL-FILE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,827, dated November 30, 1897. Application filed February 10, 1897. $erial No. 622,306. (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES ARTHUR FET- TERs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Periodical- File Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of m yinvention is to provide a simple, durable, and effective file for newspapers, periodicals, and the like which will be of a thin flat shape without lateral projections and which is therefore more convenient in use and requires less space on a rack or support.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- 7 Figure 1 is a side elevation; and Figs. 2 and 3 are transverse sect-ions taken, respectively, in the plane of the clamp-screw and of one of the dowel-pins.

The invention consists of a pair of flat clamp-boards 1 2, between which may be inserted newspapers or other periodicals represented by 3, the latter being gripped by a concave seat 4 on the edge of one of the boards and arounded edge 5 of the other. The parts thus formed are securely held together by a clamping-screw 6, which passes through both boards and the intervening paperand receives a thumb-nut 7. Both the screw and thumb nut lie wholly within the plane of the sides of the boards, and hence offer no obstruction or enlargement on the sides of the file. To preserve the alinement and proper clamping relation between the parts 1 and 2 and to hold papers in place, one of said parts is further provided with long dowel-pins 8, which when the parts are brought together pass through the papers and enter long sockets in the opposite part.

While I have referred to the parts 1 and 2 as boards, and they may be conveniently made of thin wooden pieces, it is obvious that they may be constructed of any suitable material without departing from my invention.

For convenience in hanging the file-holder it may be provided with perforations 9 at the ends of one of the pieces, and for compactness a recess 10 is formed in the part which receives thethumb-nut '7 to avoid projection of the screw 6 beyond. the edge of said part.

It will thus be seen that all the attachments are confined within the compass of the two clamping-boards, which being of thin flat section renders the file very convenient in use.

Having thus described my invention, the

following is what I claim as new therein an desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A file-holder comprising a pair of flat boards having clamping meeting edges, a clamp-screw secured to one board and extending across the meeting edges into an opening in the other board, and a clamping-nut located between the faces of the latter for securing the boards together; substantially as described; 1 I

2. A file-holder comprising a pair of flat boards having respectively concave and con vex meeting edges, a clamp-screw secured to one board and extending across the meeting edges into an opening in the other board, and a clamping-nut located between the faces of the latter for securing the boards together;

substantially as described.

3. A file-holder comprising a pair of flat boards having clamping meeting edges, long dowel-pins secured to one board and extending across the meeting edges into long sockets in the other board, a clamp-screw secured to one board and extending across the meeting edges into an opening in the other board, and

a clamping-nut located between the faces of the latter for securing the boards together; substantially as described.

4. A file-holder comprising a pair of flat boards having respectively concave and convex meeting'edges, longdowel-pins secured to one board and extending across the meetin g edges into long sockets in the other board,

a clamp-screw secured to one board and extending across the meeting edges into an opening in the other board, and a clamping-nut located between the faces of the latter for securing the boards together; substantially as described. 7

CHARLES ARTHUR FETTERS. Witnesses:

CLARENCE TILNEY CARGILL, HARRY WILLIAM SoJHRonnER. 

